Archive | December 27, 2010

Talking to Israel great deception: AL

Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:48PM Share | Email | Print Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa The Arab League (AL) chief says negotiating with Israel as it continues to expand its settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands equals going along with political legerdemain. “Negotiating under settlement expansion is a great deception,” Amr Moussa, […]

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Jerusalemites injured in confrontations in Silwan

[ 27/12/2010 – 08:02 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Violent confrontations between Israeli occupation forces and Jerusalemite citizens in Silwan suburb on Monday evening led to injuries among the citizens, eyewitnesses reported. They said that the clashes broke out after the IOF soldiers tried to storm Al-Ein mosque in the suburb at the pretext […]

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Photoblog – Child arrested for throwing stones in East Jerusalem

Katie Cannon writes:While the third picture below shows the young man who was arrested in the background, it’s difficult to tell if he was engaged in thorwing stones from the instant that was captured. The young child on the scooter to his right does not make the read any easier. Guilty or not, it would be […]

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Palestinian girl hit by Israeli Police car during Silwan clashes – International Middle East Media Center

Monday December 27, 2010 12:49 by Ane Irazabal – IMEMC & Agencies On Sunday, an Israeli police patrol car hit a five-year-old Palestinian girl in Silwan, after clashes erupted between Palestinian teenagers and Israeli forces. File (photo from Haaretz) The incident occurred in the Wad Hilweh neighborhood and according to locals, the child was sent […]

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Dec 27, 2010 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS|Gaza has been under a siege for 1293 days | Spread-Share-Link or Tweet the News

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Every day updating all news, sources and actual information about Gaza – Palestine, check also earlier notes since June 1th, 2010 with all news from worldwide newspapers and sources. وسلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته   **************************************************************** The Electronic Intifada Campaign: Help keep our reporting strong in 2011 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11662.shtml **************************************************************** No […]

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Resistance to free Palestine: Poll

PressTV – Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:21PM Palestinians have described resistance as the most preferred way to establish an independent and free state, the results of a new opinion poll indicate. The opinion poll conducted by Arab World for Research & Development (AWRAD) on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state indicated that 42.9 percent […]

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Gaza Interior Ministry: Mavi Marmara is a symbol of freedom

[ 27/12/2010 – 07:15 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Interior Ministry in Gaza said Sunday that the Mavi Marmara ship served as a symbol of freedom by standing in the face of and refusing to surrender to the Israeli naval force that lethally attacked it late last May. The ship’s return to its homeland […]

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Ramallah militias detain 11 Hamas supporters

[ 27/12/2010 – 07:01 PM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Security militias loyal to the Ramallah authority of Mahmoud Abbas rounded up 11 Hamas supporters in the districts of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Bethlehem on Monday. Local sources noted that most of the captured were either students or former prisoners in Israeli occupation jails. A PA […]

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Resistance factions declare readiness to repel any aggression against Gaza

[ 27/12/2010 – 06:32 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The armed wings of the Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza stated that the escalating Israeli military actions against the Gaza Strip only increase their strength and make them more willing to fight and capture Israeli soldiers. “The Zionist threats to wage a new war on the […]

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Hammad: We managed to rebuild 50 percent of the bombed security facilities

Hammad: We managed to rebuild 50 percent of the bombed security facilities [ 27/12/2010 – 01:57 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of interior Fathi Hammad said that his ministry was able to reconstruct about 50 percent of its security headquarters that were destroyed during the winter of 2008 and 2009. In a press […]

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Settlers torch fields near Nablus

Dec 27, 2010 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Local officials in Madama village, south of Nablus, said Monday that dozens Israeli settlers from the nearby Yitzhar settlement were behind the torching of agricultural lands and an attack on a farmer. Village council member Hasan Ziyada said locals counted 37 settlers in all, in four separate groups, harassing […]

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Peace on Earth, Even in Palestine

Submitted by Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD   It has been some 130 years since the first European Jewish settlement was established here with the explicit aim of taking over the country. The few thousand native Palestinian (Arab) Jews did not support Zionism. Christians and Muslims resisted it over the decades, mostly by non-violent popular resistance as […]

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Arab League chief: Top priority next year is Palestine

Dec 27, 2010, 15:53 GMT Cairo – Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said Monday that, among the organization’s top priorities in 2011, is the issue of Mideast peace and Palestine.’The Palestinian issue and the peace process are a priority,’ said Moussa at a press conference in Cairo, where the 22-member Arab League is based. […]

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‘The great book robbery’

27 December 2010 By Radio Netherlands News Desk – 27 Dec 2010 http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/great-book-robbery The Israeli army’s “looting” of books belonging to Palestinian intellectuals is the subject of a documentary being made by Dutch-Israeli film maker Benny Brunner. He claims as many as 30,000 Arabic books and manuscripts, some of them rare and valuable, ended up […]

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Israeli activist to judge: “I won’t ask for leniency or express remorse”

Tel Aviv, 27 December 2010. On the day that marks the second anniversary of Israel’s three-week war on Gaza, also known as Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli activist was sentenced to three months in jail for protesting Israel’s military blockade and siege on the Palestinian territory. Jonathan Pollak, a political activist who is involved in […]

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